• AI researchers warned that the AIs they were researching would go rogue, and then the AIs being researched by the AI researchers went rogue.  (The Verge)
  
  Someone find out where Sarah Hoyt keeps her shocked face.
  
  
  
• The fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Or drone strikes.
  
  
  
• Iran's strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data.  (Ars Technica)
  
  What did I tell you?
  

• Bonsai 2 27B squooshes Qwen 3.8 27B down to one ninth its original size which sounds more impressive than it is because everybody runs it at a quarter its original size anyway.  (PrismML)
  
  They provide benchmarks on an Nvidia RTX 5090 which (a) would do fine at the usual quarter size and (b) costs eleventy trillion dollars anyway.  The squooshed version only runs on Nvidia or Mac hardware at the moment, so if you're not made of money you're out of luck and if you are you don't need it.
  
  
  
• New York is demanding reparations from datacenters.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  For killing their whats or something.
  
  
  
• Hackers stole Flock's camera software.  (404 Media)
  
  By the simple trick of stealing Flock's cameras.
  
  
  
• So when your Pascal/Modula-2/Oberon compiler comes back and says the reference compilers can't decide how to properly handle subrange types and you can say ask your mom - mom being a working Ada implementation on the same runtime with constrained subtypes that implement exactly this with complete consistency - that's something alright.
  
  Also did... Don't remember. Been a long week.

Posted by: Rick C at Friday, September 18 2026 11:15 PM (1zWbY)

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